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This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

David Markson
This is Not a Novel and Other Novels Book PDF

Author : David Markson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619028197

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This is Not a Novel and Other Novels by David Markson Pdf

David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and astonished readers for decades. Now for the first time, three of Markson's masterpieces are compiled into one page–turning volume: This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel. In This Is Not a Novel, readers meet an author, called only "Writer," who is weary unto death of making up stories, and yet is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages and getting somewhere. Vanishing Point introduces us to "Author," who sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with note cards into a novel. In The Last Novel, we find an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") who announces that, since this will be his final effort, he possesses "carte blanche to do anything he damn well pleases." United by their focus on the trials, calamities, absurdities and even tragedies of the creative life, these novels demonstrate David Markson's extraordinary intellectual richness—leaving readers, time after time, with the most indisputably original of reading experiences.

This Is Not a Novel

David Markson
This Is Not a Novel Book PDF

Author : David Markson
Publisher : Counterpoint
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015050547218

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This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work which drifts "genre-less," somewhere in between fiction, nonfiction, and psychological memoir. In the opening pages of the "novel," a narrator, called only "Writer," announces that he is tired of inventing characters, contemplating plot, setting, theme, and conflict. Yet the writer is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages-and to "get somewhere," nonetheless. What follows are pages crammed with short lines of astonishingly fascinating literary and artistic anecdotes, quotations, and cultural curiosities. This Is Not a Novel is leavened with Markson's deliciously ironic wit and laughter, so that when the writer does indeed finally get us "somewhere" it's the journey will have mattered as much as the arrival.

The Last Novel

David Markson
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Author : David Markson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458758033

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The Last Novel by David Markson Pdf

Just when one had started mourning the demise of avant-garde and postmodern fiction . . . here comes David Markson's latest 'novel' which is anything but a novel in any conventional sense of the term. Yet it manages to keep us enthralled . . . and even moved to tears at the end. And what a thrill it is to witness the performance, a real tour de force.''

Vanishing Point

David Markson
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Author : David Markson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593760106

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Vanishing Point by David Markson Pdf

From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel—and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life—and all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout—until he is swept inevitably into the narrative's starting and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both—and of extraordinary intellectual richness.

The Late American Novel

Jeff Martin,C. Max Magee
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Author : Jeff Martin,C. Max Magee
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781593764043

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The Late American Novel by Jeff Martin,C. Max Magee Pdf

Scholars, journalists, and publishers have turned their brains inside out in the effort to predict what lies ahead, but who better to comment on the future of the book than those who are driven to write them? The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison’s phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the same--until now. And while music and movies have undergone an almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world now faces a revolution, a sudden change in the way we buy, produce, and read books. In The Late American Novel, Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee gather some of today’s finest writers to consider the sea change that is upon them. Lauren Groff imagines an array of fantastical futures for writers, from poets with groupies to novelists as vending machines. Rivka Galchen writes about the figurative and literal death of paper. Joe Meno expounds upon the idea of a book as a place set permanently aside for the imagination, regardless of format. These and other original essays by Reif Larsen, Benjamin Kunkel, Victoria Patterson, and many more provide a timely and much-needed commentary on this compelling cultural crossroad.

Reader's Block

David Markson
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Author : David Markson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038154020

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"Hypnotic . . . a profoundly rewarding read." Kurt Vonnegut

Malarky

Anakana Schofield
Malarky Book PDF

Author : Anakana Schofield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780742717

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Malarky by Anakana Schofield Pdf

Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She’s just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She’s been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son’s gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan. Setting aside her prim and proper ways, Our Woman promptly embarks on an odyssey of her own – one that forces her to look grief in the eye and come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing.

The Lost Art of Reading

David L. Ulin
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Author : David L. Ulin
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570617218

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The Lost Art of Reading by David L. Ulin Pdf

Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and it's seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own. Are we willing to risk our collective interest in contemplation, nuanced thinking, and empathy? Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, to pages.

Wittgenstein's Mistress

David Markson
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Author : David Markson
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015507307

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Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson Pdf

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth.

How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti
How Should a Person Be Book PDF

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887842795

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How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Pdf

A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions. How Should a Person Be? is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind, an irresistible torn-from-life book about friendship, art, sex, and love. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part racy confessional, it is a fearless exploration into the way we live now by one of the most highly inventive and thoughtful young writers working today.

How to Write a Novel

Nathan Bransford
How to Write a Novel Book PDF

Author : Nathan Bransford
Publisher : Nathan Bransford
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781734149401

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How to Write a Novel by Nathan Bransford Pdf

Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."

Springer's Progress

David Markson
Springer s Progress Book PDF

Author : David Markson
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564782182

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Springer's Progress by David Markson Pdf

Here comes Lucien Springer. Age: forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic doldrums: pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible precept: no protracted affairs. And thus he has slyly sustained eighteen years of marriage. Enter, then, Jessica Cornford. Age: almost half of Lucien's. Lush of body and roguish of mind. Whereupon what begins as bawdy interlude becomes perhaps the most untidy extramarital lech in literature. Rabelaisian yet uncannily wise, both ribald and bittersweet, "Springer's Progress" is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is an also exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries. Contemplating his own work, Lucien Springer modestly restricts his ambition to "a phrase or three worth some lonely pretty girl's midnight underlining." For the discerning reader, David Markson has contrived a hundred of them.

No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood
No One Is Talking About This Book PDF

Author : Patricia Lockwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593189603

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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

John Updike
The Best American Short Stories of the Century Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395843677

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike Pdf

Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").

The Book of Not

Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Author : Tsitsi Dangarembga
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451649

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The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga Pdf

The powerful sequel to Nervous Conditions, by the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The Book of Not continues the saga of Tambudzai, picking up where Nervous Conditions left off. As Tambu begins secondary school at the Young Ladies’ College of the Sacred Heart, she is still reeling from the personal losses that have been war has inflicted upon her family—her uncle and sister were injured in a mine explosion. Soon she’ll come face to face with discriminatory practices at her mostly-white school. And when she graduates and begins a job at an advertising agency, she realizes that the political and historical forces that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community are outside the walls of the school as well. Tsitsi Dangarembga, honored with the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression, digs deep into the damage colonialism and its education system does to Tambu’s sense of self amid the struggle for Zimbabwe’s independence, resulting in a brilliant and incisive second novel.